[f. VISIT v.]
1. That visits; that pays visits or is engaged in visiting.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., IV. xv. 68. There is nothing left remarkeable Beneath the visiting Moone.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 151, ¶ 2. The Memory of an old Visiting-Lady is so filled with Gloves, Silks, and Ribands.
1807. J. Harriott, Struggles through Life, II. 41. Should any visiting company wish to see the infant … I have known the child brought to the door of the apartment.
1859. Lever, Davenport Dunn, iii. To think you’re a visiting governess in an Aldermans family.
1895. Daily News, 26 Oct., 3/1. None of the visiting teams were on the winning side.
b. Visiting ant (see quots.).
1855. Orr’s Circ. Sci., Org. Nat., II. 391. One of these species, the Alta cephalotes, which inhabits the West Indies, is there known as the Visiting Ant.
c. 1882. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., V. 382. The Driver Ants, or Visiting Ants, of West Africa, generally referred to the species Anomma arceus.
1899. Mary Kingsley, W. African Stud., i. 27. These ants are sometimes also called ‘visiting ants,’ from their habit of calling in quantities at inconvenient hours on humanity.
2. That visits officially for the purpose of inspection or examination.
1713. Gibson, Codex, XLII. viii. 1009/1. In the Council of Laodicea, ann. 360, it was Ordained, That no Bishops should be placed in Country Villages, but only … Itinerant or Visiting Presbyters.
1802. James, Milit. Dict., Visiting Officer, he whose duty it is to visit the guards, barracks, messes, hospital, etc.
1818. Sir S. Romilly, in Parl. Debates, 30. That the royal prerogative should be interposed … between them and the visiting magistrates.
1822. Syd. Smith, Prisons, Wks. 1859, I. 361. Are visiting justices to doom such a prisoner to bread and water?
1866. Ipswich Jrnl., 26 May, 6/1. District Visiting Nurses.
1868. (title) The Visiting Justices and the Troublesome Priest.
